For the first time, rFpro is integrating third-party tyre model suppliers directly into its road surface model software, TerrrainServer. This access to highly-detailed road surface data is helping motorsport teams to develop more advanced tyre models.
A tyre model is made up of two elements; the contact patch model and the dynamics and force calculations. For highly-efficient processing during real-time simulations, TerrainServer takes an average road position of the contact patch, which the tyre model uses to calculate the force and directions being applied to the wheel.
During offline simulations, the new tyre model can be run at extraordinarily high detail because it isn’t constrained by real-time. This enables a sweep of test parameters to be run to evaluate how the parameter changes affect the vehicle. For example, different tyre pressures, downforce levels and weight distributions can all be evaluated to see the impact on lap times.
The first tyre model provider to be integrated into rFpro’s TerrainServer is MegaRide. Its customers have already adopted the new solution and are benefitting from the results.
